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Got through most of the chassis and replaced a couple dozen resistors that were outside their marked tolerance. Have a few more to do, mostly in the sound IF stages.

Decided to power the set back up, and see what effect all this work has had. Sync seems a lot more stable, and the foldover is gone, but vertical sweep still takes several minutes to achieve decent height from a cold start. Tried a NOS 6SN7 in the vertical osc/output socket, but no improvement. Will try running the chassis on its side tomorrow, and start applying freeze mist to the vertical circuit after the set warms up. Vertical linearity is still pretty bad, and the pot is all the way at one end of travel to get it this good. Maybe a bad mica cap? How reliable are the caps inside the yoke? Is it possible that the linearity issue is an artifact of the 5" test tube vs a 10" tube? Other possibility is the cathode bypass cap on the vert output tube. Used a 150 uF, rather than the 130 uF called for on the schematic. Anyone think this could be a problem?

Got the first real pictures on the set today by feeding the external modulation input on my VA62 from a DVD player. Contrast range seems pretty limited, and a lot of interaction between contrast and vertical sync. But nice to see a real live picture on this thing as opposed to a test pattern. Multiburst looking a little better now, too.